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  • Marcel the Happy

    Marcel the Happy

    Marcel The Happy has been allowed to go and live in the barn. Sweet as it is to have him pooping all over the furniture I have been waiting for a row of warmish days to get him acclimatised to living out with the other animals. He is a sheep after all. He is esconsed…

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  • Spring in the Sun

    Spring in the Sun

    Awake, thou wintry earth – Fling off thy sadness! Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth Your ancient gladness! ~Thomas Blackburn, “An Easter Hymn” I was looking for Mother Teresa’s quote, to verify that I had the words right for the header,and came across this other quote (above). So all day yesterday I was marching about saying…

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  • A quick show of hands.

    A quick show of hands.

    Very quickly I would like to ask a favour. I am still working on the blog page and due to popular demand; the T Shirts. I need to know how many of you might want to buy a Sheila The Sassy T Shirt.  If you have a moment could you click on your size so…

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  • Sprucing things up…

    Sprucing things up…

    Tomorrow I am going to take a blog day off. It snowed a few more inches in the night and I can go nowhere anyway so I am going take the chance to spruce the look of The Kitchen’s Garden blog up a bit. Up my game if you will. I think we all deserve…

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  • Hush …

    Shh. The lamb and the dog are sleeping. Together. Again. Last night a very strange thing happened, well it happened the night before but I was more bemused than alarmed the night before. Last night just got weird.  Usually I feed the lamb at 10pm and 2am. Every four hours. Well the night before last…

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  • Are you up?

    I am not. I mean I am up. But it feels like my head needs to catch up. I went to bed at 7pm last night. I tried to stay up until the 9.30 lambs feed but failed. So I went to bed and my inside alarm woke me at 10pm and again at 2am.…

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